4 Apr 2025

Barbie Ferreira’s Closet Picks

The actor selects favorite horror films like Videodrome and The Vanishing , talks about connecting with the work of Gregg Araki, and recommends that everyone watch Todd Haynes’s Safe .

Barbie Ferreira: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

9 single, 2 box sets

single films

9

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

18

the same visit, box sets opened

Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com

This visit as a strip, a cell for each choice: paler the older the film, indigo for a box set, which is one cell however many films it holds. The order is the order Criterion's own page lists them in, which is probably but not provably the order they came off the shelf.

248 Videodrome 1983 133 The Vanishing 1988 277 My Own Private Idaho 1991 1251 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 860 Mildred Pierce 1945 1002 Betty Blue 1986 SET John Cassavetes: Five Films 995 Polyester 1981 SET Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy 522 Red Desert 1964 739 Safe 1995

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	1983	10
2	The Vanishing	George Sluizer	1988	6
3	My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant	1991	9
4	Drugstore Cowboy	Gus Van Sant	1989	5
5	Mildred Pierce	Michael Curtiz	1945	2
6	Betty Blue	Jean-Jacques Beineix	1986	4
7	John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films			30
8	Polyester	John Waters	1981	4
9	Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy box set, 3 films			5
10	Red Desert	Michelangelo Antonioni	1964	4
11	Safe	Todd Haynes	1995	6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1945 to 1995, box sets 1959 to 2000

John Cassavetes: Five Films

Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

a single film, at its year a box set, across the years of its films the collection, by decade

The axis is the same 1920 to 2030 on every visit page, so a haul that stayed inside one decade looks like one. A box set is drawn across the years of the films inside it, which is a range of release dates and not a claim about the set. Nothing here is in the order the choices were made: displayed position moves film year by a fifth of one percent of its variance, which is not a slope worth drawing.

How long this haul is

Its 18films run 34.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 186.5 minutes of film for each of its 11 choices, counting a box set as the one choice it was. Across the 375 visits with a complete total, the median is 136.4 minutes.

How unusual this haul was

Its 11 choices had been taken by 7.73 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Mildred Pierce, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of David Cronenberg, through Videodrome, Gregg Araki, through Totally F***ed Up, Gregg Araki, through The Doom Generation, Gregg Araki, through Nowhere, John Waters, through Polyester and Todd Haynes, through Safe, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com